What does dreaming about father & mother mean in the Bible?

Parents in dreams often carry themes of origin, security, or unfinished business. Scripture gathers all of it into the character of God: a father who has compassion on his children, a mother whose comfort God claims as His own, and the father in Jesus' parable who runs to embrace a returning child. In the SoulGuide Dream Guide, father & mother is filed under people & beings — one of 54 symbols in the guide — and is answered with 3 King James Version passages quoted in full: Psalms 103:13, Isaiah 66:13, Luke 15:20. Each passage below carries a short note explaining why it applies to father & mother, so the entry can be read on its own without the rest of the guide.

“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”

“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”